Half to francis a



(No Model.)

G. A. GANE.

SHIRT.

No. 353,934. Patented Dec. '7, 1886.

'EINITED STATES PATENT Urrrcn.

GEORGE A. GANE, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO FRANCIS A. WVHITNEY, OF SAME PLACE.

SHIRT.

t'laPE-CIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 353,934, dated December '7, 1886. I

Application filed June 11, 1886. Serial No. 201,854. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. GANE, of Leominster, county of \Vorcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Shirts, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relating to shirts has for its object to increase the strength of the same at the juncturc of the sleeve with the shirtbody, thereby enabling the said shirt to withstand greater wear and strain at that point, and increasing its durability.

The sleeves of shirts as heretofore usually constructed have been sewed directly to the shirt-body at the shoulder by a plain or a felled seam.

Experience has demonstrated that shirts having the sleeves unzted to the body by a plain or felled scam wear out rapidly, and tear through when subjected to strain, especially when worn by persons engaged in work which requires considerable arm motion.

The object of this invention is to strengthen shirts at the juncture of the sleeve with the shirt-body; and my invention consists of a reenforcing band or strip extended, preferably, completely around the shoulder, the said reenforcing band or strip being stitched both to the shirtbody and t0 the sleeve, as shown.

Figure l showsa sufficient portion of a shirt, partly broken out, to enable my invention to be understood; and Fig. 2 a section of Fig. 1 in line w x, to clearly show the manner of securing the re-enforcing band to the shirt body and sleeve. Fig. 3 represents ashirt enibotlying myinvenlion.

The shirt-body a, only a portion of which is shown, and which may be composed of any desired number of pieces sewed together in any desired manner, has the sleeve a united to it by stitching, as at a (See Fig. 2.) To e11- able the shirt to endure considerable strain at the sh0ulder,I have secured to the shirt-body, and also to the sleeve, a sleeve stay band or strip, 1), of any suitable material, the said band being preferably secured to the inside of the shirt. The folded edge of the band or strip 12 is secured to the shirt-body by stitching, as at c, and to the sleeve by stitching 0. (See Fig. 2.) The band or strip 1) relieves the stitching a of the greater part of the strain which it would otherwise receive, and the said strain is distributed to the stitchings c and 0, thereby greatly increasing the strength of the shirt at its shoulder.

In practice, there-enforcing band will preferably extend entirely around the shoulder; but I do not desire to limit myself to any precise length of the said band, as the same may extend but a portion of the way round, and yet largely increase the strength of theshirt at the shoulder.

The stitching a", uniting the sleeve to the shirt-body, will prel'erably penetrate through the re-ent'orcing band or strip 1), thus still further increasing the strength at that point.

My improved shirt is especially adapted to be worn by laboring men engaged in pursuits requiring considerable arm motion, and especially of that kind of motion which imposes a considerable strain on the shirt atthe shoulder.

1 claim A shirt consisting of a body and sleeves which are secured to said body at the shoulders of the shirt, combined with a re-ent'orcing band or strip for each sleeve, the said bands or strips being attached to the shirtbody and the sleeves on the inside ot'the shirt, and on opposite sides of the points at which the shirt and sleeves are joined, and being loose at the lines of union of the shirt and sleeves, substantially as set forth. 

